. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. WRIST-JOINT (ABNORMAL ANATOMY). 1525 with the fistulous orifices of canals, which con- duct purulent matter from the centres of some of the curious bones, and from the interstices between them. At this period of the disease we can, by holding the lower part of the forearm with one hand, and grasping the metacarpus with the other, move these parts laterally in opposite directions, clearly ascertaining that all the bones are loose and carious, and in an irrecoverable state of disorganisation. The constitution of the patien
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. WRIST-JOINT (ABNORMAL ANATOMY). 1525 with the fistulous orifices of canals, which con- duct purulent matter from the centres of some of the curious bones, and from the interstices between them. At this period of the disease we can, by holding the lower part of the forearm with one hand, and grasping the metacarpus with the other, move these parts laterally in opposite directions, clearly ascertaining that all the bones are loose and carious, and in an irrecoverable state of disorganisation. The constitution of the patient invariably sympa- thises deeply with this state of things ; and the wasting effects of hectic fever are found usually coinciding with the disease of the wrist and carpus ; and, if amputation be not performed, the life of the patient may be sa- crificed. This operation, however, almost in- variably succeeds in arresting altogether the hectical symptoms, and the patient is restored to health. The scrofulous disease of the cancellous structure of the bones of the carpus, and of the carpal extremity of the radius, does not always proceed thus unfavourably. Occasion- ally, instead of suppuration, a resolution of the inflammatory action may ensue, or anchylo- sis, with partial displacement backwards of the bones of the forearm at the wrist-joint, may be established. This last, however, may be looked upon rather as an arrest of the morbid action than as a cure, because the patient is not only deprived of the use of the wrist, and sometimes of the medio-carpal joints, but also of the use of the fingers; in- flammatory action in these cases having been communicated to the flexor tendons and their sheaths, rigidity of the ligaments, or even anchylosis of the joints of the fingers, too generally follows as a natural consequence. It may here be asked, whether, in the pro- gress of this disease, the wrist-joint is liable to those spontaneous displacements of the bones which other articul
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